Okay, welcome my name is Devine. This is episode 432 of the Devine

Intervention Podcasts. In today's podcast I'll be discussing a topic I like to call

Farm Blits, Pharmacology Blitz.

So I know some of you may wonder, Devine, what do you mean by Pharmacology Blitz?

Basically what I mean is, over the next few minutes here,

I want to try to cover a lot of very high-yield pharmacology that will be helpful for anyone taking step one, step two, or step three. I'm just going to try to tie many things together, so I'm not going to dwell too much on any one point.

It's going to be almost like a rapid review of pharmacology. Obviously I can cover every single pharmacology in this one podcast. But at least I will try to make an attempt to

cover as much as is humanly possible. So what if they give you a question about a patient and they tell you that this patient has a

my cardio infarial infarction and and the person's blood pressure decreases precipitously.

What should you be thinking about?

I already hope you're thinking about a nitrate.

Remember, nitrates,rates are very important drugs

that I used in amis to deal with the chest pain

because you know, when you have an ami,

your heart is not working very well.

So you need, you know, as those myocardial cells are dying, you may experience a lot of pain. So that pain, one of the ways we treat that pain is with nitrates.

And nitrates, they help by being powerful veno dilators.

Since they are powerful veno dilators, they would send less prelude to your heart. so your heart doesn't have to work as hard

since it's dealing with less fluid and it will help.

That's how nitrates help, especially even in people that have angina.

They reduce my your cardio oxygen demand. But if you have an RCA in fact,

nitrates are not a good idea. They are not a good idea. So remember nitrates again,

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